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In 1989, Oxford physics grad, computer scientist and CERN engineer Tim Bernes-Lee (London, 1955) longed for an easier and quicker way to share information with CERN researchers around the world. So, he created a new system enabling hypertext (HTTP) to be sent through the already-invented, but largely inaccessible, Internet — making him the first to combine Internet servers with HTTP clients to create domains. With this technology, he created what soon became known as the World Wide Web (WWW) — the fastest-growing communications medium of all time. The very first website? “info.cern.ch.”